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jstenback
Personal blog · jstenback.wordpress.comprogrammingsystems
jstenback is a personal blog at jstenback.wordpress.com about programming and systems. Since 2012, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times, most often “New [Mozilla] DOM bindings”. The last post was in 2012, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts by Johnny Stenbeck on the history, present and future of DOM bindings in Mozilla's browser, which HN readers cite for the performance gap between browsers and for JavaScript and C++ interaction.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Musings of a Gecko hacker
Most-linked posts?
- New [Mozilla] DOM bindings3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2012-04-12
What Hacker News says?
"I'm unsure of whether the remaining 90% is due to DOM interaction, rendering, or just perceived crappiness but it exists nonetheless." A mix of all of that. For the DOM part Mozilla is developing new bindings (called Paris bindings) to close the performance gap compared to the competition [1]. Johnny Stenbeck has written two articles which give an interesting insight into past, present and future DOM bindings in Ge…
Comment linking /2012/04/11/new-dom-bindings/
on “Firefox finally plugs the leak”Submitted New [Mozilla] DOM bindings as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThese issues are all very similar to the difficulties with interaction between JS and C++ in web browsers. A lot of engineering and specification effort has been expended in browsers to improve these problems, on things like WebIDL [1], codegenned bindings[2], JITs that understand some of the behavior of the underlying C++ operations [3] and so forth, but for a game engine where you aren't running potentially malici…
Comment linking /2012/04/11/new-dom-bindings/
on “Why C++ for Unreal 4”Submitted History of Mozilla’s DOM bindings as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted History of Mozilla’s DOM bindings as a story · 2 points
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